Structural/Anti-structural Alternation

The principle of a dialectic between structure and anti-structure is important to understanding how symbolic process in everyday life achieves regular and repetitive alternation between structural and "anti-structural" modes--periods of intense and focused activities are punctuated regularly and rhythmically by periods of rest. Play follows work, sleep follows the day, celebrations follow periods normal activity. It is important to understand how this dialectic between structure and complementary anti-structure serves to mutually reinforce the overall symbolic context and how symbolism become defined both in terms of structure and anti-structure.

This important dialectic also play an important role in the classroom and in most educational contexts. Traditional style education has tended to emphasize structure to the neglect of sufficient forms of anti-structure, failing to realize how anti-structure can be effectively utilized to reinforce and complement the overall educational process. Within the framework of the Bridge it is important to understand the ways that this dialectical patterning can be articulated at many levels and in many ways of the entire learning process.